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TIL that there is a road in Brussels called "Ceci n'est pas une rue" ("This is not a road") in honour of Rene Magritte

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jN5Dp TIL the earliest recorded use of LOL as an initialism was for "little old lady" in the 1960s. During the Apollo mission, ferrite cores were used as transformers and acted as either a binary one or zero. The LOLs created the required software by weaving together sequences of one and zero cores.
8aENV TIL Al Capone is responsible for the expiry date on milk.
LQBBm TIL: Jamie Hyneman of Mythbusters ran away from home at the age of 14 and hitchhiked across the United States. He is currently a qualified diver, outdoor survival expert, boat captain, linguist, pet shop owner, animal wrangler, machinist, concrete inspector, and cook.
1YWW TIL that baby carrots (aka baby cut carrots) are actually just the cores of carrots not fit for store shelves, and were only invented in 1986.
V8W4 TIL 1 in 10 inhabitants on the island of Pingelap is color blind due to a ‘population bottleneck’ in 1775 after a catastrophic typhoon swept through the remote island leaving only 20 survivors. One of the survivors was King Nanmwarki Mwanenihsed, patient 0 with the rare Achromatopsia gene.